Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 09:02:07 -0800
From: Clare Howell
Subject: IYF-Lead in Georgia Murder
MEDIA ADVISORY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Editor: Clare Howell, clare@gpac.org
POLICE SEEK MURDERED TRANSVESTITE'S BOYFRIEND
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[Abbeville, GA: 3 Apr 99] BEFORE BILLY JOE/TRACEY
Thompson died, he gave police a lead. "He was pretty
much falling in and out of consciousness," said
Sheriff Stacey Bloodsworth. "He said his boyfriend
had beaten him."
The AP reports that Thompson (33) often
hitchhiked up and down I-75 dressed as a woman. He
was found Tuesday (30 Mar 99) badly beaten near a
farmhouse 10 miles east of the Interstate near
Cordele. He died later that day.
No arrest has been made. Local residents
expressed little sympathy for Thompson. Said a
retiree at a fast food restaurant, "They say he
was wearing a dress. Most people in this area
would say, 'Hell, he needed killing.'"
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TRANSGENDER DAY IN JAPAN
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[Tokyo: 3 Apr 99] TOMORROW IS TRANSGENDER DAY
in Tokyo, a day aimed at promoting public
understanding of people who change their sex.
The Kyodo News Service reports that a
lecture 'Transgender and Human Rights' will be
given Sunday at Toyko's Suginami Ward.
Support groups for transgendered
people have become active in Tokyo since last
October when the first sexual reassignment
surgery was performed in Japan.
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